Angle-cock holder



Oct. 12 1926. 0 1,603,000

S,H.CAMPBELLETAL ANGLE COCK HOLDER Filed August 25, 1922 INVENT RSS.H.VCAMPB u. F.H .PIETZSCH ATTORN FY Patented Oct. 12, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

STERLING I-I. CAMPBELL AND FRANK H. IIETZSCI-I, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI,AS- SIGNORS TO RAILWAY DEVICES COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ACORPORA- TION OF MISSOURI.

ANGLE-COCK HOLDER.

Application filed August 25, 1922. Serial No. 584,254.

Our invention relates to an angle cock holder for railway cars and hasfor its object the production of a simple, cheap and strong holder whichmay be used to effectively support the angle cock at a substantialdistance in front of the face of the car. llerctofore it has beencustomary to make the angle cock holder integral with the striking blockor to form it of a casting attached to the striking block, end sill orother con venient portion of the car. Such construe tions aresatisfactory when the angle cock is to be supported only a shortdistance in front of the car. hen, however, the angle cock is to bepositioned a considerable distance in front of the car end they are notsuitable. To meet this latter requirement the hereinafter describedholder has been designed.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate one form of holder made inaccordance with our invention, Figure 1 is a front elevation showing thedevice attached to the end sill of a car, Figure 2 is a view on areduced scale, partly in section and Figure 3 is a side view, the anglecock being omitted.

5 indicates the end sill of a railway car. A plate 6 of Wrought iron orsteel forms the body of our holder andis provided with a turned over web7 adapted to bear against the face of the sill 5 and secured thereto byrivets 8 or other fastening means. The plate (3 and web 7 are so formedthat the plate will be positioned at an angle to the vertical and willproject forwardly at an angle to the plane of the car end and at anangle to a horizontal plane. The plate is provided near its forward endwith a pair of holes for receiving the arm of a U-bolt 9, which arms arethreaded to take nuts 10 by means of which the U-bolt is clamped aroundthe angle cock 11 forward of its body portion to hold it firmly againstthe face of the plate. The angle cock 11 is provided with a handle 12 ofthe self locking type, the projecting rear end 13 of which would strikeagainst the plate 6 if provision were not made to overcome thisdifiiculty. To obviate this objection we form in the plate 6 an opening14 providing a recess for the passage of the pro ecting rear end 13 ofthe handle, as shown in Figure 2 of the drawings.

It will be evident that our construction produces a strong and simpleholder by means of which the angle cock may be supported at any desireddistance in front of the car and which will firmly hold the angle cockin the proper angular relation to the car.

The positioning of the plate with its width lying in a plane at rightangles to the end of the car causes the forward strain on the angle cockwhen the air hose is uncoupled to be substantially in the direction ofthe Width of the plate and consequently the plate may be made lighterthan if thestrains were of such direction as to tend to bend ittransversely.

Having fully described our invention what we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

A device of the class described comprising an elongated metal plateadapted to be secured to the end of a car and projecting lengthwiseforwardly and downwardly therefrom and also inclined laterally, saidplate being arranged with its width lying in a plane substantially atright angles to the end of the car and with its length lyingsubstantially in the direction of the pull of the brake hose and meansfor securing an angle 7 cock against one face of said plate at theforward end.

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands.

STERLING H. CAMPBELL. FRANK H. PIETZSCH.

